Oh, don’t make the mistake to underestimate them. They will!
With some quick short term actions most likely unsuccessfull in the long run but don’t be fooled, they also plan on the long run. Their lobby is strong and active. They are pulling the strings to further stricten copyright laws and censorship on the net like web blocks, deep packet inspection, holding the ISP’s responsible for infringements … trying to convince politicians to turn the dangerous and uncontrolled internet into a controlled “Inner-Net” that can be closely watched and monitored and an “Outer-Net” where one will be suspiciously monitored if connecting to or connecting from. Maybe by creating new protocolls and stanadards that serve them better.

Just be sure, they will try everything before the die out. It’s like a giant beast deadly wounded: watch out for the tail!!!

“Representative, and enemy, of the people.
Savior of cents, protector of the rich.
National security blahblahfuckkkinblah”

Not to mention that he is a filthy Zionist(*) and extremist as indicated by the way he is defending the fascism government of Israel no matter what type of crap they do.

Joe Bit Me is a bad-Hass just like Dick Head before him.

* Note that Jews are not Zionist and Zionist are not Jews according to the TORA.

Good luck with that!

I am not going to elaborate but the pirate bay can not be shutdown. It is somehow like Wikileaks.

Checkmate.

Your are fucked dude and all you spectrial BS make you look like a pack of corrupted fools and minihead you all are.

Beside it is helping the boycott tremendously and it contribute to put your crappy business of parasites down faster.

Basically you are all fired. It did not have to be this way but too late. You had so many warning that you all stubbornly ignored.

It seem that on top of that you are going to cost a lot of vote to the Bite me/Obama administration in your last futile attempt to stay in power.

“Throw them in jail and confiscate the servers”? Yeah, that would accomplish… Absolutely nothing.

Because TPB has redundant backup servers spread out all over the world. And there’s at least one full siterip of it available as a torrent.

So, jail? Please. It wouldn’t even matter if they were exucuted by firing squad and the primary servers had an atom bomb dropped on them.

Thanks to all the attempts to destroy it, The Pirate Bay has become an indestructable hydra. No, sorry, I take that back… There’s actually one way it *could* be destroyed: IF THE EARTH EXPLODED.

I will always take the example of the STEAM web site.
The STEAM people are so freaking smart and that company deserves to flourish.
I don’t know if you saw it, but STEAM did some awesome promotional sales for the week of July 4th. I did buy Bioshock 2 for $15 and a Badlands expansion for just $3. You know that’s very reasonable prices for good games. And the way STEAM does it is so freaking smart: they chain promos from one day to the next… You will come back the next day to see what they have. They know how to hook you up. This is how business should be done in 2010.
You hook up a customer and seduce him/her to come back in the near future.
Maybe STEAM is really good at using marketing jedi mind tricks, but that company is the proof that it can be done.
Why wasn’t Itunes doing -66% promo rental on July 4th. You know, like renting Green Zone for $1.60 for 24h. Just one day. This is how you hook up customers, not try to sue and scare potential clients. You have to go where your customers are and not threaten them to do business with you because its not going to work.

The entertainment industry is supposed to entertain and not scare customers.

I really have the impression the MPAA and RIAA are run by the old grumpy men from the muppets. MPAA and RIAA:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/StatlerAndWaldorf.jpg
They refuse to adapt and understand what the internet is.

@55: nice. I didn’t think it would come that soon. So they really are in an emergency situation, kind of like BP but for movies and music. Do they want a bail out too? Hey I’d like a bail out too if they get one!

And MAFIAA, thanks for providing us with fun. lol

I’m wondering why they’re even bothering to call it a “Trade Agreement” anymore and not something more appropriate like “Take Over the World Agreement” or something.

anon-surfing.at.tc

Humans are a disaster by themselves.

We need a big asteroid.

and

“* Require ISPs to hand over their subscribers’ identities to copyright owners without any due process or judicial oversight;”

Anti-constitutional. The right to due process.

* Prohibit the U.S. Congress from reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it a crime to defeat copy protection even when making a copy is perfectly legal;

Anti-constitutional. One can not make a law that prevent congress to pass future law or amend existing laws. But since the DMCA is already
Anti-constitutional and therefore not a law this is a mute point.

* Threaten potential innovators with outrageous financial penalties for copyright infringement;

Anti-constitutional. Cruel and unusual punishment.

Voila. There is not much left of ACTA on US ground unless they rape the constitution.

* Require Internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect individuals accused (not convicted) of repeated copyright infringement;
* Require ISPs to hand over their subscribers’ identities to copyright owners without any due process or judicial oversight;
* Require ISPs to make potentially expensive modifications to their networks in an effort to prevent copyright infringement;
* Prohibit the U.S. Congress from reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it a crime to defeat copy protection even when making a copy is perfectly legal;
* Require all countries to implement DMCA-like laws for their own populations, without the benefit of fair use or other legal exceptions that provide a modicum of protection for speech;
* Threaten potential innovators with outrageous financial penalties for copyright infringement; and
* Criminalize even non-commercial uses of copyrighted materials.

Sounds a lot like a copyright law, not an “anti-counterfeiting” agreement, doesn’t it?

How true is that, and how sad is it that we, as a human race, are forced to do this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

Go to the criticism section.. They are trying to remove safe harbors for ISP’s and make it illegal to host software which can be used for p2p sharing.

I’m starting to think they more interested in destroying freedom of speech and privacy rather than piracy.. Someone kill them already, For God Sake!

I don’t know about you pal, but I don’t vote for assholes. The sad thing is in the US, the only choices are assholes. There’s no ‘none of the above’ button, and independents just don’t stand a snowball’s chance in Hell.

I hate to say it, but maybe it’s time the US did go down for the count. I’m sick and tired of assholes fucking it all up. I hear Copenhagen looks good this time of year…

How many threats, takedowns, rulings, decisions, blockages and raids will it take to remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet? It seems that nothing can do the job. Threats didn’t work. Civil action hasn’t worked. Police raids didn’t work. Threatening ISPs hasn’t worked. Even the promise of jail sentences has produced no results.

Throw them in jail and confiscate the servers. Since the the Swedish Pirate Party is now hosting the site, getting access to the servers should be easy.

Make no mistake about it. Yes, these things have started changing their domains, but they are just making it worse for themselves. Pretty soon, we will start throwing these clowns in jail.

Europe is far more powerful than the USA, which are nearly bankrupt.

And still, they act as slaves. But this will change some day.

I don’t know if I’ll see it while I’m alive, but somehow, the fact that the USA will sooner or later be a third-world country, obeying India or China, always makes me smile.

Of course, sorry for american citizen. But as everywhere, you get the rulers you vote for.

They rather go under than let the freedom of the people flow freely. Your freedom will come at a very high cost. Unless the people and corps can cooperate, then soon things will happen. Someday they know they cannot win with the current behaviour. Ofcourse we need to pay artists. But that´s not what I´m talking about. But common freedom of information.
If corps and govs cannot control that, then they will do everything in their power to destroy all in it´s way. Welcome to how greed and power works in this world. I only hope people know what they are up against because they haven´t seen anything yet only glimpses.

It´s difficult because if the people stand up against this then even more control will be triggered. And why they are discussing shutdown plans of internet behind the scenes.

But the people must raise their voice there´s no other way. Even if it will take hundreds of years until you will yet again will get the freedom you have today. Changes takes time.

I had been using newsgroups for 10 years now.
Still using them the same way today, just with SSL.

how can they possibly stop that?

But a great article none the less. Long Live File Sharing!!

Die in a fire you white haired scum fukk

Hail file-sharing!

If the current net becomes a corporate net then a new one will take its place. A controlled net would be become useless and boring. There is always sneaker net that no amount of laws can stop. At some point we will be able to mail each other terabytes of data on something the size of a mini credit card.

Totally obvious, totally true, (totally epic!) and yet totally beyond the grasp of the MPAA and their cronies!

Go TF!